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Dont Let Them Hurt Our Children (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rebecca Jones WITH her 10-year-old son, Adam British mother Rebecca Jones is fighting to win back her son Adam, 10, after a Sharia court in Qatar awarded custody of the boy to her dead ex-husband's family. Mrs Jones says her son was "kidnapped" while visiting his Arab relatives in the Gulf state eight weeks ago. She claims she was tricked into signing legal documents she did not understand....
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Business Blog Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Learning difficulties Learning difficulties’ dyslexia dyspraxia, asperger’s syndrome or ADHD is a collective term for a lot of different conditions with varying conditions, symptoms and severity. Dore works Solution Driven Exercise Based Science Based 24/7 - Builds Confidence & Life Tansforming Motivating Personalised & Proven The Dore Programme helps poor reading and writing, listening,...
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Interesting Facts (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The gene FOXP2 is the first gene to be identified as being involved in the development of speech and language. (The FOXP2 gene is required for proper brain and lung development, but it is implicated in the development of language skills too. Several cases of developmental verbal dyspraxia in humans have been linked to mutations in the FOXP2 gene. They just need to discover the gene linked to learning...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
My 3-year-old has dyspraxia -- a motor planning disorder that leaves him awkward and clumsy -- but we've both learned how to be patient and to calm ourselves when he gets upset.
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The engineer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Technology designed to adaptively support posture could help children with severe dyspraxia, improve drivers' road skills and reduce falls among the elderly.
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Switched (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Filed under: Computers Researchers at the University of Leeds are developing a device that lets children with dyspraxia , a motor-skills deficit, perform exercises designed to help them improve coordination. Similar to the high-degree-of-freedom interfaces used by computer animators and modelers, the device is essentially a digital pen attached to a robotic arm, and is used to control various games...
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Snowdrop (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Adults are often the forgotten casualties of brain injury, the media and consequently the public often focussing their attention upon children. Adults suffer strokes / ischaemic attacks, they suffer head injuries, brain tumours, asphyxiation, just as children do, but what is also forgotten is that those children whose brain injuries have caused developmental disabilities grow up to be adults with developmental...
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Glamorgan Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A TEENAGE filmmaker who has chronicled her struggle with dyspraxia is to have her work showcased at the National Media Museum.
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With my blog I aim to help other st (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Stationery alert! Stationery alert!! I'm a self-confessed stationery-aholic and so my eyes were filled with delight when I set them upon these Yoropens. One of my fondest memories as a child was to go into the local stationers where the rows upon rows of pens, pencils and submarine shaped erasers lined the shelves and called to me to buy them. I am 27 now and my taste still hasn't changed - only I...
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Faces of Autism (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
I'm a wife, mother, artist, writer, blogger, and singer. I was diagnosed with Asperger's in November of 2008, and SPD/dyspraxia in January of 2009,when I was 50. I published my first book in 2007, and I'm hard at work on another. Asperger journeys US
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amalah . com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The Out-of-Sync Child describes a child with dyspraxia as the "I Can't Do That" child. They sit on a bike but have to stare at their feet to get them to pedal...stare at their hands to make sure they are...
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Autisable (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Feeling like a broken record today! Brush your teeth...................wash your hands............turn it down..............calm down and tell me.............wash your hands...........don't slam the door.............hold the cutlery.........brush your teeth. There is never a day goes by but I have to remind both children to brush their teeth and wash their hands after the loo etc... I always know...
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Classroom Free - Home Education Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Our home-educating adventure began when our youngest son (now 11) was bullied (for want of a better word) in his primary school. He was so young, just 4/5 years old, and it was heartbreaking to see a child change so dramatically. He went from being a happy-go-lucky, confident, always smiling sort of boy, who was the first into the classroom every morning eager to learn - to being incredibly withdrawn,...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Results from a recent study indicate that Facebook may actually be good for your brain, while services like Twitter and YouTube may not be, at least when it comes to the part of the brain that deals with memory. The study was led by Dr. Tracy Alloway, Director of the Centre for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan at the University of Sterling in Scotland . Alloway has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology...
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Snowdrop (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
This book is intended to give hope to parents whose children have suffered brain - injury. It addresses some of the many complex difficulties which are faced by those families. From initial diagnosis through to treatment, it goes further than explanations, it offers solutions. It not only explains the consequences that brain injury has for children in the major areas of their development, it also demonstrates...
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